THE REPUBLIC vs. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF SEKONDI TRADITIONAL COUNCIL

JUDGMENT OF DORDZIE, JSC (MRS.):- In order to make the conclusions I would come to in this appeal clear, I find it necessary to carefully outline the sequence of how events unfolded in this matter from the Judicial Committee of the Sekondi Traditional Council through the High Court to the Court of Appeal and finally to this Court, the apex court. Particularly because I find some of the facts as laid out in the submissions of both sides in this appeal a bit distorted. By a writ of summons dated 15th day of June 2005 The respondent in this court Ebusuapanyin Kwamina Essa (described as the head of family of the Kokodo Ebiradze Royal family of Fijai Kweikuma) per an attorney, Kofi Susu and 3 others instituted an action in the Sekondi Traditional Council against Opanyin Kwesi Musu the interested party herein and another. Their claims, per the record are as follows:- a. A declaration that the nomination and selection of one Amo as the chief of Fijai by the defendants is contrary to the cu...